[D66] The Communist Horizon

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http://www.versobooks.com/books/1151-the-communist-horizon

The Communist Horizon
by Jodi Dean
Rising thinker on the resurgence of the communist idea.

In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean 
unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In 
an age when the malfeasance of international banking has alerted 
exploited populations the world over to the unsustainability of an 
economic system predicated on perpetual growth, it is time the left 
ended its melancholic accommodation with capitalism.

In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very 
ability to communicate is exploited, but revolution is still possible if 
we organize on the basis of our common and collective desires. Examining 
the experience of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that such spontaneity 
can’t develop into a revolution and it needs to constitute itself as a 
party.

An innovative work of pressing relevance, The Communist Horizon offers 
nothing less than a manifesto for a new collective politics.

Reviews
“This is what everyone engaged in today’s struggles for emancipation 
needs: a unique combination of theoretical stringency and a realistic 
assessment of our predicament. To anyone who continues to dwell in 
illusions about liberal democracy, one should simply say: read Jodi 
Dean’s new book!”
– Slavoj Žižek

“Jodi’s sharp analysis of the impasses of the left is also a kind of 
requiem for much of the 2.0 bluster of the last decade.”
– Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism